Poetry, Healing, and Awakening with Felicia Clark

Important note: This episode includes conversation about trauma, depression, suicide, and substance use. Please take care of yourself. Listen cautiously or consider skipping this one if these subjects are triggering for you.Art is often an outlet for healing. For digital nomad, Felicia Clark, poetry was her medicine of choice.Felicia joins Art is the New Wall Street to talk about her debut poetry collection, Awake: Poetry for the Healing. Together, we explore what it means to be awake, notice synchronicities, write through pain, and use creativity as a form of healing. Felicia reads multiple poems from her book on air and shares how The Artist’s Way, sobriety, and radical self-acceptance shaped her healing journey and subsequent spiritual awakening.In this episode we talk about:Being awake to generational cycles and toxic patternsObsessive writes: the themes that haunt your creative work and following themFoster care and the mysterious letter ASobriety, nomad life, and rebuilding creative confidencePets as lifelines (hi, Luna Moon)Boundaries, mirrors, and the friends who make up a support squadManifestation as a creative practiceThe Artist’s Way, Big Magic, and other creative works worth checking outThis one is for the artists who are healing, the writers who are listening, and the souls who are learning to see their story as sacred.Felicia’s creative affirmations:I am willing to create. I am willing to be of service through my creativity. I, Felicia Clark, am a brilliant and prolific writer, worthy of being a published author.Connect with Felicia (and buy her book!):Felicia's Author WebsiteMeasure Life in Bookmarks FacebookMeasure Life in Bookmarks InstagramCreative works mentioned in this episode:It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark WolynnThe Artist’s Way by Julia CameronThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsBecoming A Published Therapist: Bill O’ Hanlon Big Magic by Elizabeth GIlbertMirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life by Louise HaySupport the showSubscribe at artisthenewwallstreet.com and on YouTubeLearn more about host and producer, Morgan Short Follow us on Tik Tok, Instagram, and FacebookSubscribe wherever you listen to podcastsKeep creating, keep making art. Your art is a gift to you and to the world.